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...author of Scared of the Kids? , a book published in the U.K. in 2001, I am well aware of the concern about young people. A key question that is rarely raised when discussing young people is, What has changed about adults? Rather than asking what has happened to the young, we should be asking why adults have become cowards. Why do those on the left see "having a go" as vigilantism? Why do we rely on the police to deal with young people on the streets, the vast majority of whom are not criminals in any shape or form...
...gardening and highlights the work of 50 designers who, for the past decade or so, have reacted to the glassy, razor-edge precision of modernist architecture with creations that go way beyond raised flower beds and mounds of perfect lawn. "These gardens are about ideas first and foremost," says author Tim Richardson. "They're not mainly about plants and they're not really about function." Instead, they use surreal scaling, vivid colors and otherworldly shapes "to disrupt the modernist feel of rational, calm, ordered spaces - it sometimes looks as if some sort of earthquake has occurred...
...risk becomes blurred. For a trader on a roll in the midst of a bubble, for instance, that suggests "several rounds of winning means testosterone so high they start taking stupid risks," says John Coates, a former Wall Street trader turned senior research fellow at Cambridge, and lead author of the study. Amid today's volatile markets, chronically high levels of cortisol, which can conjure up feelings of anxiety and negative thoughts, are believed likely to squeeze a trader's stomach for risk, potentially perpetuating a market's fall still further...
...controversial Government professor and author of the book “Manliness” is hosting, of all things, a feminism conference...
...believe that healthy normal women should make a life for themselves in the public world, and it is therefore immoral to create circumstances where they cannot do that,” author Linda Hirshman said. “I certainly didn’t agree with his book,” referring to Mansfield’s “Manliness...